cltl / Wiktionary_Reader

Wiktionary Reader

The goal of this repository is to load Wiktionary in Python classes.

Prerequisites

Python 3.6 was used to create this project. It might work with older versions of Python.

Python modules

A number of external modules need to be installed, which are listed in requirements.txt. Depending on how you installed Python, you can probably install the requirements using one of following commands:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Resources

A number of GitHub repositories need to be cloned. This can be done calling:

bash install.sh

How to use

1. bash extract.sh (takes hours) to extract the information from Wiktionary for the languages you're interested in.
2. configure a config file (see example config/en_it_du.json)
3. load output into Python classes using `load_wiktionary.py''' Perform the following call for more information about usage

python load_wiktionary.py -h

4. Check how_to_use.py for an example of how to use

TODO

• filter on whether you include words without senses
• the extractor seems to only capture translations from English to other languages, not from other languages to English.
• extend part of speech tagset (now only nouns, verbs, and adjectives are used)

Authors

• Marten Postma ([e-mail])

License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details